Tell me why I should be quaking in my boots. I'm open minded, and have a strong libertarian (small "l") streak, so convince me.
All I usually get is "Stores will build a database, and then Homeland Security will do, um, something." Followed by handwaving and dubious slippery slope arguments that usually imply a continent spanning sensor net that sounds like a cross between Tom Clancy and Vernor Vinge.
Someone connect the dots here. The article didn't do a very good job.
Or is this just modern mythology, like people hiding in their homes worrying about wererwolves and vampires and witches in centuries past?
I'm a total tech head, but I love analog clocks and watches. They just look nicer. They have aesthetic appeal, something the geek world too commonly ignores.
Home robotics will not take off until someone sells a quality sexbot. I'm not kidding. Pr0n drove the initial sales of the VCR market. It's driving the Internet even if no one wants to admit it. The inital wave of VR games died out because people don't want to put on a dorky helmet viewer without more payoff than shooting at blocky robots, and the cost per game was usually the same as a blow from a crack whore.
One of the most successful and well known drugs in the world is Viagra.
Sex sells everything, and it will sell robots.
Hell, I'd probably buy one, but I expect it to make breakfast in the morning. Preferably pancakes. Warm, fluffy pancakes. Mmmm... pancakes.
If I got one hit on my website last month, and got fifty this month, I'd have, statistically, the fastest growing web site in the world.
You see this in business news all the time. Brand X is the fastest growing company blah blah. Well, yeah. It's easy to see big growth numbers when you have three employees.
There's something to be said about the Neilsen ratings being totally hosed. I mean, I can't, even on a wager, find people that watch any of the shows in the TV ratings top ten. Maybe I know smarter people or something, but something is not correlating.
I get calls from all my call phone weilding friends, and the call quality completely blows across all the available carriers. Calls are dropped. They are static laden exercises in futility. If the caller is anywhere where there is any background noise of any significance, the vocoders go absolutely apeshit and I'm lucky to catch every fourth syllable. I recently had my ears tested, and I still have the hearing of a teenager, so it's not me.
The cell phone weilders never seem to have these problems, and my only theory is that it's a combination of denail (like users of the _fill_in_the_blank_ operating system who claim everything is perfect and glorious) and something the cell phone companies do to make sure the people *with* the cell phones hear a better connection than the beleagured call recipients on the other end. Some sort of imbalanced bandwidth allocation.
As for the advanced features, I work someplace where even audio recording devices are disallowed for security reasons. I looked into getting a phone recently, but the models with the form facotrs and displays I liked were NOT available WITHOUT a camera or voice recorder.
Now would be a good time to convert
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Why one extreme or the other? Why not do both. I think a Matt Groenig character put it best: television does the playing for you when you are tired from real playing.
Television isn't all reality TeeVee or sitcoms. The whole point of going to cable or satellite is to get all those more interesting channels, like Discovery and History and so on.
- I've never lost a signal in rain, but then I live in SoCal where we don't actually have weather for 300 days out of the year. Wind has no noticable effect, and we've had some real blustery days since I got the system.
- For me DirecTV was marginally cheaper. I also just sort of like the idea that I'm watching TeeVee froma satellite. YMMV.
- The integrated Tivo has two main advantages. [1] The Tivo records the original digital stream so the recordings look as good as the original. There is no quality setting at all like on the standalones. [2] The monthly fee is half that of a standalone ($6 versus $12).
Caveats
- Integrated unit means if one thing breaks, the whole box needs to be replaced or fixed. The is countered by the HDVR2 now costing $99. These things are about in the "disposable" device range now.
-DirecTV is dragging its feet on the Home Media Option. I personally don;t care about it, but, again, YMMV.
I use Appleworks to make very complicated and elaborate final engineering reports for work. Lots of charts and diagrams. It's like Word minus the features you never really use. Excellent program for, what, 60 bucks nowadays?
If it's an obvious typo or dropped letter or transposed letters on a message board, it's easy to ignore. If it's a repeated error, or one where in order to be a "typo" the writer would have to have been hit by a car while typing the message and dc029in ok1n;lk;jkhhgggg ggggggggggggggggggggggggg
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All I usually get is "Stores will build a database, and then Homeland Security will do, um, something." Followed by handwaving and dubious slippery slope arguments that usually imply a continent spanning sensor net that sounds like a cross between Tom Clancy and Vernor Vinge.
Someone connect the dots here. The article didn't do a very good job.
Or is this just modern mythology, like people hiding in their homes worrying about wererwolves and vampires and witches in centuries past?
But you wouldn't know unless you need to roll them all the way to the end.
Someone did. They modded you insightful :-)
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I'm a total tech head, but I love analog clocks and watches. They just look nicer. They have aesthetic appeal, something the geek world too commonly ignores.
One of the most successful and well known drugs in the world is Viagra.
Sex sells everything, and it will sell robots.
Hell, I'd probably buy one, but I expect it to make breakfast in the morning. Preferably pancakes. Warm, fluffy pancakes. Mmmm... pancakes.
I'd be happy if award voters anywhere in the media world took the quality of a work into consideration.
You see this in business news all the time. Brand X is the fastest growing company blah blah. Well, yeah. It's easy to see big growth numbers when you have three employees.
There's something to be said about the Neilsen ratings being totally hosed. I mean, I can't, even on a wager, find people that watch any of the shows in the TV ratings top ten. Maybe I know smarter people or something, but something is not correlating.
The Flash RAM file system overflowed, and they didn't test long enough to catch thise because they had a launch window to meet.
The cell phone weilders never seem to have these problems, and my only theory is that it's a combination of denail (like users of the _fill_in_the_blank_ operating system who claim everything is perfect and glorious) and something the cell phone companies do to make sure the people *with* the cell phones hear a better connection than the beleagured call recipients on the other end. Some sort of imbalanced bandwidth allocation.
As for the advanced features, I work someplace where even audio recording devices are disallowed for security reasons. I looked into getting a phone recently, but the models with the form facotrs and displays I liked were NOT available WITHOUT a camera or voice recorder.
Windows Using Friend: What do I do?
HB: You download the tarballs and-
WUF: That tar whats?
HB: The tarballs and-
WUF: The what balls?
HB: The tar balls and-
WUF: The what whats?
And so on and so forth...
The only constant is change, padiwan.
Who was the hot chick? All I saw was Janet Jackson's.
Television isn't all reality TeeVee or sitcoms. The whole point of going to cable or satellite is to get all those more interesting channels, like Discovery and History and so on.
- For me DirecTV was marginally cheaper. I also just sort of like the idea that I'm watching TeeVee froma satellite. YMMV.
- The integrated Tivo has two main advantages. [1] The Tivo records the original digital stream so the recordings look as good as the original. There is no quality setting at all like on the standalones. [2] The monthly fee is half that of a standalone ($6 versus $12).
Caveats
- Integrated unit means if one thing breaks, the whole box needs to be replaced or fixed. The is countered by the HDVR2 now costing $99. These things are about in the "disposable" device range now.
-DirecTV is dragging its feet on the Home Media Option. I personally don;t care about it, but, again, YMMV.
Super what?
I use Appleworks to make very complicated and elaborate final engineering reports for work. Lots of charts and diagrams. It's like Word minus the features you never really use. Excellent program for, what, 60 bucks nowadays?
I did. :-)
Wouldn't the risk and cost of safely returning it to Earth be far greater than just going and maintaining it?
I remember being in awe of it until my mom told me it wasn't the real Sputnik. It was a let down, like realizing Santa isn't real.
Sorry, Virginia. No Santy Claus. And no billion dollar operation to get the Hubble back to Earth to assuage your severe childhood trauma.
And I hate to break it to you, but most of the dinosaur skeletons on actual display are casts from the originals.
Yes.
and if so what is it?
Scientists are still trying to determine that.
But fear not. NASA will be landing a rover ouside of Toulouse this fall.
It might mean people are reading the article before posting.
it wasn't all refined and perfect and unambiguous like it is now. ;-)
There's a drawing on a cave wall in Kenya that shows two sticks being rubbed together.
If it's an obvious typo or dropped letter or transposed letters on a message board, it's easy to ignore. If it's a repeated error, or one where in order to be a "typo" the writer would have to have been hit by a car while typing the message and dc029in ok1n;lk;jkhhgggg ggggggggggggggggggggggggg